Demand your privacy

5:39 PM,
Dec. 16, 2013

Eugene Robinson

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Eugene Robinson
Columnist

It seems our elected officials have no intention of reining in the National Security Agency's mad-scientist quest to know everything about our communications and movements. If we want our privacy back, we're going to have to fight for it.

Months after Edward Snowden spilled the beans, the NSA - whose mission is supposed to be foreign surveillance - is still compiling a comprehensive record of our domestic phone calls. Every time you dial, the government can find out who, what, when and where.

We hear a lot of patronizing talk from President Obama and other officials about how healthy it is that ...